Sowing Discord
Sowing Discord
Because of it, thirty thousand stone monuments were purple and belonged to Su Ming.
Panic and alarm descended on the people in the land with the one hundred thousand stone monuments. The commotion from it grew louder, everyone's fear raising. They might have stopped screaming in pain, but their voices were still echoing in the minds of all others, which resulted in an unprecedented change in Western Ring Nebula's foreign land.
In fact…
The drastic change in the blue and crimson stone monuments naturally affected the owners of those which had reached one million feet or even more. They might no longer be in Western Ring Nebula's foreign land, but they could still not escape the change in their souls.
In Western Ring Nebula there was a dull planet with a middle-aged man sitting beside a lake. There was a branch in his hand which held a brilliant green bud from a weeping willow. It was drooping in the water, and there was an indifferent expression on the man's face, as if he was fishing.
There were two beautiful women beside him. They were kneeling while gently hitting his shoulders. The sky was murky and the land filled with fog, with only the man being clear, just like his expression. It was as if nothing could bother him, his expression as clear and cool as water.
However, at that moment, his face muscles suddenly twitched. As his expression changed, a violent power erupted from his body. The two women behind him cried out in surprise as they tumbled backwards. The weeping willow in the man's hand shattered, reduced to powder. The lake on the ground also evaporated with a loud bang, filling the place with a violent power for a moment.
A shrill scream of pain came from the man's mouth. His body trembled. Blood trickled out from the mouths of the two servant girls far behind him. In a panic, they realized that the person known as their Progenitor, someone no one dared to provoke, was full of fear they had never seen on him. His shrill scream was something they had never heard before, either.
In the mid of the pained scream, a runic symbol appeared at the center of his brows. It was crimson-red, but then began turning purple. A moment later, when it completed the transformation, the man coughed up a large mouthful of blood. Shock appeared on his face, and he lifted his head to stare at the galaxy with respect shining in his eyes.
'What happened? Why do I have a feeling that… my stone monument in Western Ring Nebula's foreign land… has changed masters?'
His body trembled. As his expression changed continuously, he stood up to charge into the sky. He wanted to return to Western Ring Nebula's foreign land to check on what had happened. The event just then had filled him with fear. If he did not find out what was going on, he would feel uneasy. After all… his stone monument was in Western Ring Nebula's foreign land.
The same thing happened in plenty of areas of Western Ring Nebula. In fact, quite a few people among the forces of power from the four Great True Worlds stationed to keep an eye over the Barren Lands of Divine Source suffered the same fate. Once they finished screaming shrilly, fear and alarm would appear on their faces while their hearts would fill with anxiety.
In Western Ring Nebula's foreign land, Su Ming, who had devoured the blue and crimson Ecangs, walked out of the three hundred thousand purple galaxies. He closed his eyes slightly and lifted his arms to punch to the sides.
It were two punches. At the instant he threw them out, the three hundred thousand purple galaxies tumbled about and surged into the sky. As loud booms reverberated in space, two gigantic purple vortices appeared beside Su Ming before charging into the distance while rumbling.
Su Ming was not going to devour just one portion of Ecang's soul, but two of them at once!
Loud noise shook the sky and earth, which lasted for only a few breaths. At the instant the two booms surged into the heavens, the barriers on Su Ming's sides crumbled. Orange and green lights spread out from the shattered barriers.
"Today is the day Ecang descends in the universe. Why… do all of you resist? With my will, I will rebuild Ecang. My glory will also be your glory!" While his voice echoed in space, Su Ming charged into the orange galaxies.
"Stop him! If we don't stop him, then all of us will be destroyed by him! If I'm devoured, he will become stronger, and it'll definitely be impossible for all of you to escape being killed!" With a voice filled with panic that had never known it, the orange Ecang cried out, its voice echoing in space.
"How do we stop him?"
"He has already devoured blue and crimson. He is also a complete life form. His current might is something we cannot hope to stand against. How… do we stop him?"
"Green, the barrier leading to your galaxies has already been opened. Attack! Fight together with orange. If you don't attack, you won't be able to escape from the fate of fusing with him!"
"That's right, green, take action first and resist him. Our barriers have yet to open. Even if our wills descend, it'll be useless. Since purple is so conceited that he dared break two barriers at once… you have to work together with orange and make him fuse with you!"
The divine thoughts of the remaining fragments of Ecang's soul echoed in space. A hysterical roar came from the green galaxies, and a violent impact turned into a gigantic green Ecang tree. A rampaging life force spread out from its body, and it turned into a long arc that charged into the orange galaxy.
However, the instant it approached the place, the orange Ecang's despair-filled roars echoed in the galaxy.
"It's not that I'm against you fusing with me and wiping off my existence, but you intend to devour me, not have me fuse with you. This… is something I don't want. I'd rather destroy my will and break the promise so that my body, which will no longer possess any form of consciousness, would return to the universe's embrace!"
There was a crazed will in that voice. At the instant it echoed in the air, a loud bang that shook all one million galaxies rang out in space. As it rose up, the orange galaxies shattered to pieces and collapsed.
When the orange Ecang chose to wipe out his consciousness and return to the place of its origin, the ten thousand orange stone monuments it possessed in the land of the one hundred thousand stone monuments cracked from the inside before simultaneously turning into ashes. Ten thousand cultivators in possession of those stone monuments shuddered, and without any pained screams, their bodies were torn were destroyed along with their souls, scattered into nothingness.
The moment the orange Ecang disintegrated, seven seeds shining with orange light rushed towards the green Ecang. They entered its body, and a jolt ran through the green Ecang's body. It let out a long howl.
As the howl echoed in the air, green Ecang's aura increased exponentially, several times stronger than before. At the same time, five howls echoed in space from the one million galaxies. The other Ecangs had also absorbed the origin of power from the orange Ecang's body after it had wiped out its consciousness. After it fused with them, all of them instantly became stronger.
There were six orange seeds. Su Ming also absorbed one of them, but it was just a fragment of it, and it was a far cry from what he'd received after devouring one whole colored Ecang. With a single move, Su Ming charged towards the green Ecang, who had frozen in space while the orange galaxy crumbled.
There was madness within the green Ecang's eyes, which looked like annual rings. Once he fused with the rampaging life force spreading out from its body, it shut its eyes.
"The one who will eventually fuse with the rest of us and form the complete Ecang, remember this… kill this person as an offering to me for willingly becoming a source of power!"
The green Ecang knew that even if it had absorbed one of the seeds that was the source of power formed by the orange Ecang, it still would not be able to escape from Su Ming. Since the orange Ecang could wipe off its consciousness and return to its place of origin, then… it could also do the same.
As it closed its eyes, a bang came from its body, and a power that caused the heavens to roar rang out. As the green Ecang's body crumbled and exploded into pieces, it turned into six green seeds that shot into space. Even Su Ming could not manage to stop them from disappearing. One of them charged into his body and instantly fused with him. At that moment, five roars shot into space.
Even more powerful ripples of power were contained in those roars. The remaining fragments of Ecang's soul became much stronger than before. However, individually, they were still not Su Ming's opponent. However… if four more of them were willing to turn into the origin of power, then the final Ecang who would appear… would be the Ecang who could shake the universe, the one that existed in Old Mie Sheng's ballad!
Ecang had been set up by Sui Chen Zi in the past and forced to split up to heal itself, waiting till the injuries recovered before being able to fuse and be reborn. Yet if they fused together right then, while it might still become the Ecang from the past, it would not be as strong as it was before. However… even then, it would still pose a threat to Su Ming once it possessed its memories.
Su Ming had thought about this previously, which was why he had been so efficient and firm in his actions while devouring the previous two… but it still happened.
However, since Su Ming had predicted that this might happen and still had the gall to devour the other Ecangs, he naturally had methods to handle it. At that moment, the connection between him and the other Ecangs was very intriguing. The Ecang he chose would turn into an origin of power, and the last one who was not chosen would become the dominant will to make the real Ecang awaken.
Because of it, the Ecang he chose would lose the right to become the real Ecang. For the remaining five fragments, this was the most important thing, even more so than their lives.
Su Ming's lips slowly curled up into a strange and enchanting smile.
"It's not that I, Su, must devour all of you today. I only want three complete souls. Now… I am lacking only one.
"If I just devour one more, I will stop. I wonder which of the five of you will be willing to fulfill my wish."
The moment Su Ming finished speaking, the hearts of the five fragments of Ecang's soul trembled. The threat Su Ming posed to them was incredibly great, but they did not want to wipe out their own consciousness either… Who among the five of them would be willing to be devoured?